#improvising

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record. ↗

— Jane Siberry

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Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. ↗

— Gary Burton

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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. ↗

— Robert Schumann

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While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. ↗

— Pete Fountain

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There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

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In one scene, when I was supposed to say, "In a pig's eye you are," what came out was, "In a pig's ass you are." Old habits die awfully hard. ↗

— Ava Gardner

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I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. ↗

— Robert Englund

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